Focus Features’ new movie Loving world-premiered May 16 In Competition at the 2016 Cannes International Film Festival. The teaser poster was also unveiled. From acclaimed writer/director Jeff Nichols (Midnight Special, Mud, Take Shelter), Loving celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), whose civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court. The couple (portrayed in the film by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga) fell in love and were married in 1958.
The couple had grown up in Central Point, a small town in Virginia that was more integrated than surrounding areas in the American South. Yet it was the state of Virginia, where they were making their home and starting a family, that first jailed and then banished them. Richard and Mildred relocated with their children to the inner city of Washington, D.C. While relatives made them feel welcome there, the more urban environment did not feel like home to them. Ultimately, the pull of their roots in Virginia would spur Mildred to try to find a way back.
A Focus Features presentation of a Raindog Films/Big Beach production in association with Augusta Films & Tri-State Pictures. Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga. Loving. Marton Csokas, Nick Kroll, Terri Abney, Alano Miller, Jon Bass, and Michael Shannon. Casting by Francine Maisler, CSA. Location Casting by Erica Arvold, CSA, Anne Chapman, CSA. Music by David Wingo. Costume Designer, Erin Benach. Edited by Julie Monroe. Production Designer, Chad Keith. Director of Photography, Adam Stone. Executive Producers, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Jack Turner, Jared Ian Goldman. Produced by Ged Doherty, p.g.a., & Colin Firth, p.g.a., Nancy Buirski, p.g.a. Produced by Sarah Green, p.g.a. Produced by Marc Turtletaub, p.g.a., & Peter Saraf, p.g.a. Written and Directed by Jeff Nichols. A Focus Features Release.
Check out the new trailer below:
Loving will be in theaters across the country in November.
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